We've seen how the pretexts given for censorship in Saints don't hold up to even cursory scrutiny.
Saints is an attractive book in terms of design and content. It is very well done. It's a nice glove. But I think M2C is the hand in the glove of Saints.
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It's apparent to everyone now that the editors of Saints censored the term Cumorah solely to "uphold" their idea of "neutrality" regarding Book of Mormon geography, an intellectual construct from the late 20th century that has no place in Saints.
This concept of "neutrality" was articulated by M2C scholars in their effort to justify erasing the New York Cumorah from the record. That's why the Saints editors invoked it to justify censoring the term Cuomrah.
While we all want to give the historians the benefit of the doubt, the pretexts they've given so far merely confirm their interdependence with M2C ideology. Recent actions by the M2C intellectuals demonstrate how they are adding Saints to the academic cycle they have been using to impose M2C on members of the Church.
Here's the academic cycle.
Saints was written to fit right in.
We have to add it to the circle labeled "Meso Art & Media."
Now, it's not only students at BYU and CES who are being taught that the prophets and apostles are wrong about the New York Cumorah.
Thanks to Saints, everyone in the Church is being taught that the prophets are wrong.
Saints is even using an intentionally false historical narrative to do it!
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This false historical narrative is what the M2C intellectuals have been promoting for years, but until Saints, they didn't have the full, explicit cooperation of the historians the way they do now.
After all, the Introduction to the Book of Mormon still refers to the New York Cumorah:
After Mormon completed his writings, he delivered the account to his son Moroni, who added a few words of his own and hid up the plates in the Hill Cumorah.
If there is no course correction to return to the teachings of the prophets and apostles about the New York Cumorah, that language will certainly be changed to read something such as this:
After Mormon completed his writings, he delivered the account to his son Moroni, who added a few words of his own and hid up the plates in a large hill in Manchester township, Ontario County, New York.
Actually, I suspect the Introduction has already been changed for the 2020 edition of the Book of Mormon. Don't be surprised when that edition comes out.
Which is a tremendous irony, to put it mildly.
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Back to the hand-in-the-glove relationship between the M2C advocates and Saints.
Book of MormonCentral Censor BOMCC is an integral part of the M2C citation cartel. BOMCC is famous for its corporate goal of proving the Book of Mormon is a Mesoamerican codex and its policy of censoring anything that contradicts M2C.
Actually, it goes further than that; BOMCC censors anything that doesn't support, promote, or at least accommodate M2C--except when it criticizes those views without giving an opportunity to respond.
On its blog, BOMCC posted the essay by the historians that justified their censorship of Cumorah. People read BOMCC to confirm their M2C biases, and the essay fits their M2C narrative perfectly. No BOMCC readers will recognize the logical and factual fallacies n the essay because they want to believe M2C.
But BOMCC is pushing Saints even more than that.
Now they're citing Saints as authority for their M2C ideology, exactly as the Academic Cycle predicts. I discussed an example here:
https://bookofmormoncensor.blogspot.com/2018/10/no-wise-477.html
You'll say that Saints was not intended as an academic reference, and I agree, but BOMCC is hardly known for academic rigor. None of their material is peer-reviewed, in any real sense. It is reviewed solely for adherence to M2C ideology.
Don't be surprised to see BOMCC cite Saints more and more in the future. And don't be surprised to see more and more "hand-in-glove" cooperation between M2C intellectuals and the historians.
(I already have more examples I don't have time to describe here.)
Saints is an attractive book in terms of design and content. It is very well done. It's a nice glove. But I think M2C is the hand in the glove of Saints.
_____
It's apparent to everyone now that the editors of Saints censored the term Cumorah solely to "uphold" their idea of "neutrality" regarding Book of Mormon geography, an intellectual construct from the late 20th century that has no place in Saints.
This concept of "neutrality" was articulated by M2C scholars in their effort to justify erasing the New York Cumorah from the record. That's why the Saints editors invoked it to justify censoring the term Cuomrah.
While we all want to give the historians the benefit of the doubt, the pretexts they've given so far merely confirm their interdependence with M2C ideology. Recent actions by the M2C intellectuals demonstrate how they are adding Saints to the academic cycle they have been using to impose M2C on members of the Church.
Here's the academic cycle.
We have to add it to the circle labeled "Meso Art & Media."
Now, it's not only students at BYU and CES who are being taught that the prophets and apostles are wrong about the New York Cumorah.
Thanks to Saints, everyone in the Church is being taught that the prophets are wrong.
Saints is even using an intentionally false historical narrative to do it!
_____
This false historical narrative is what the M2C intellectuals have been promoting for years, but until Saints, they didn't have the full, explicit cooperation of the historians the way they do now.
After all, the Introduction to the Book of Mormon still refers to the New York Cumorah:
After Mormon completed his writings, he delivered the account to his son Moroni, who added a few words of his own and hid up the plates in the Hill Cumorah.
If there is no course correction to return to the teachings of the prophets and apostles about the New York Cumorah, that language will certainly be changed to read something such as this:
After Mormon completed his writings, he delivered the account to his son Moroni, who added a few words of his own and hid up the plates in a large hill in Manchester township, Ontario County, New York.
Actually, I suspect the Introduction has already been changed for the 2020 edition of the Book of Mormon. Don't be surprised when that edition comes out.
Which is a tremendous irony, to put it mildly.
_____
Back to the hand-in-the-glove relationship between the M2C advocates and Saints.
Book of Mormon
Actually, it goes further than that; BOM
On its blog, BOM
But BOM
Now they're citing Saints as authority for their M2C ideology, exactly as the Academic Cycle predicts. I discussed an example here:
https://bookofmormoncensor.blogspot.com/2018/10/no-wise-477.html
You'll say that Saints was not intended as an academic reference, and I agree, but BOM
Don't be surprised to see BOM
(I already have more examples I don't have time to describe here.)
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